Credit to Chris Williamson for coming up with this though. I just found it worth sharing.
The iPhone came out in 2007. That was the year the worm turned, imo.
We have a deluge of data - we have very little information.
Words are made up and we actively change and redefine them when we use them based on context.
I get the sense that you were trying to correct the OP, but really OP is just defining “information” the way you’re defining “data”
The concept being conveyed is the same.
We had very little of it, and had to put in a ton if effort to seek it out, but now it’s thrown in our faces nearly all the time with the litteral flick of a finger. Neither of these situations seem optimal, but whatever the optimal situation is, we must have experienced it at some point because the transition didnt happen instantaneously
I think the way it’s used has drastically changed. When someone had a lot of information on hand you would go to the “smart guy/girl” and things would be assessed on a somewhat scientific level. That is unless you are picking the smartest person in the trailer park. But I digress.
Now everyone “thinks” they are smart because they have the information. It’s how that smart person filtered through the information and interpreted the information that made them smart.
People born in 2005 will be 20 this year.
STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD, SIR!!!
I recently found out I’m about as old as Java and I still haven’t decided if that sounds worse for me or for Java.
Infinite amounts of information is fine. As long as it’s not about the actions of people.
I personally think that moment was in 1993, when the Encarta CD was released.
It had a huge amount of information, but it didn’t feel overwhelming.
The internet also didn’t feel overwhelming.
In 2005, I think the internet already felt overwhelming.
But I guess if you weren’t the nerdy type crawling the web, then social media and smartphones were the game changer and I would put the date closer to 2010.
absolutely, the Iphone was the game changer.
the internet is as useful as it’s ever been it just stopped being a physical place you go, the computer, to something you carry with you everywhere as another layer of reality.
Before iPhones we had much useful BlackBerries, Nokia with advanced Symbian, some Windows CE/Mobile devices. Even feature phones had something called WAP, but it was f…ing expensive.
Who needs a stylus?
Bring back full QWERY keyboards.
I hate that I’m not old enough to think WAP means anything other that the Cardi B song
Social media has existed since BBS. What changed is there’s suddenly big money in it, and virtually no barrier to entry.
